Kenya

My brother is a master of keeping in touch. Really, he stays connected with everyone. His friends, classmates, relatives…Sometimes he asks me if I know Person X who was asking after me or he gives me details of his meet-up with that cousin to the brother of the niece of our great-grandmother and I am…

I envy people whose shaggz is just a few minutes or hours away from the city. Those who can easily travel home, have lunch with the peeps and travel back, all in a day. For me, travelling home via public transport is an entire day or night’s affair, depending on what time I choose to…

Dear Lecturer, I can’t quite remember how you look like because I have only seen you twice; once when you made a 10-minute technical appearance in class when we first reported to school, and the other time you were on TV,with your fellow learned colleagues, bellowing ‘Solidarity Forever’ chants, demanding that the government addresses your grievances.…

It is no secret that I love food. A lot. And I am very unapologetic about it. I live to eat, while most people eat to live. To me, food is more than just edibles that keep the body systems functioning, and eating is an activity that should be accorded its deserved time. You ought…